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Mercer County - Princeton - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Victorian Gardening Practices

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Image credit: Public Domain, 1887 advertisement from Rice’s Box of Choice Vegetables Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Victorian Gardening Practices Wednesday, February 12 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Tickets for afternoon talk only: $10; Free for Friends of Morven Tea/Tour/Talk: $27; $18 for Friends of Morven Museum Tour available at 11:00 a.m. or Noon, Tea at 1:00 p.m. Additional fee and reservations required for Tea must be made by calling 609.924.8144 ext. 103 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Travel to what many consider the "Golden Age of Horticulture" with Morven's Horticulturists! Morven’s Horticulturists Louise Senior and Charlie Thomforde take you on an entertaining and educational tour of the national landmark’s Victorian-themed gardens and their history as well as the tools, techniques, and plants of what many consider the Golden Age of Horticulture. The Victorian era, a time when plant explorers introduced new and exotic annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and vines int...